New species of flowering plant honours Brazilian botanist

A new species of flowering plant (angiosperm) from the Espírito Santo sate, in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest domain, Kuhlmanniodendron apterocarpum Groppo, Favaretto & Fiaschi (family Achariaceae), the second species of the genus Kuhlmanniodendron, was recently described this year in Systematic Botany journal, the ASPT official (note ASPT: American Society of Plant Taxonomists). The genus name, Kuhlmanniodendron ("Kuhlmann tree") is a tribute to John Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882-1958), a Santa Catarina citizen settled in Rio de Janeiro, director of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden from 1944 to 1951, one of the biggest Brazilian botanists. The research involved people from our Department, as me,  Dr. Claudia Ines da Silva (palynologist), Bruno Favaretto (a.k.a "Pastel"), a undergraduate student, and colleagues from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte and from the Instituto de Biociências de São Paulo, USP. Morphological, anatomical, palynological, phytochemical and molecular sequencing data were used to a  better understanding of the the phylogenetic position of the species in a broader context. The article can be obtained at 
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1600/036364413X662114

Flower, by Jomar Jardim

Plate, drawings by Bruno Favaretto